Ebook {Epub PDF} In the Wet by Nevil Shute

In the Wet by Nevil Shute (Hardback Book Club) Listing in the Fiction,Books, Comics Magazines Category on eBid United States | Description. Shute’s speculative glance into the future of the British Empire. An elderly clergyman stationed in the Australian bush is called to the bedside of a dying derelict. In his delirium Stevie tells a story of England in through the medium of a squadron air pilot in the service of Queen Elizabeth II. It is the rainy season.3/5(1). Originally published in , IN THE WET is Nevil Shute's speculative glance into the future of the British Empire. An elderly clergyman stationed in the Australian bush is called to the bedside of a dying derelict. In his delirium Stevie tells a story of England in through the medium of a squadron air pilot in the service of Queen Elizabeth II/5.

I first read In the Wet, along with most of Shute, in the seventies when I was a www.doorway.ru Shute was, according to his fascinating autobiography Slide Rule, an oddly technically and scientifically. In his opium-hazed last hours, a priest finds his deserted shack and listens to his last words. Half-awake and half-dreaming the old man tells the story of an adventure set decades in the future, in a very different world."In The Wet is a novel by Nevil Shute that was first published in the United Kingdom in Buy a cheap copy of In the Wet book by Nevil Shute. In The Wet is a novel by Nevil Shute that was first published in the United Kingdom in It contains many of the typical elements of a hearty and adventurous Free Shipping on all orders over $

I have been a Nevil Shute fan for more than 30 years, and IN THE WET was one of his many novels I'd not read. Well, now I have - mostly (I skimmed a lot) - and it was something of a disappointment. Even Shute's most famous book, ON THE BEACH, is a speculative look at the future, and so too is this one, but it's a bit quirkier, in that it also deals with the idea of reincarnation. Originally published in , IN THE WET is Nevil Shute's speculative glance into the future of the British Empire. An elderly clergyman stationed in the Australian bush is called to the bedside of a dying derelict. In his delirium Stevie tells a story of England in through the medium of a squadron air pilot in the service of Queen Elizabeth II. In the typical way of Nevil Shute this tale built steadily on the plot and became more and more gripping. I found the. story and the characters utterly believable and was right there with them. Even though I knew the book already, I found it hard to put this down. Nevil Shute is such a skilled storyteller - he never fails.